Quell your fears for love and peace

Icons from my deep depression

2010-06-06T19:43:26Z

[80] Icons (LOST, True Blood, Supernatural, Misc. Celebrities)

here@braindebris

This is it

2010-05-23T23:40:46Z

I spent the rest of the afternoon finishing this and trying to survive my anxiety. I'd just like to take this moment to say thanks to everyone who helped make this so fantastic and wonderful for me. Returning to LJ and sharing this experience with you all has really been what has made this special. Thank you and enjoy the finale!

NO LOST NOOO-oh icons

2010-05-19T03:49:40Z

[88]LOST Icons (cast+various seasons)

here@braindebris

Break is over

2010-05-13T22:37:56Z

In my web graphics class, aka basic mac graphics class or photoshop class should be a prereq for this class but no. So it's mostly a boring rehash. ZZzzzz. But at least I get a design class this semester. I had some free class time...

It's the pee cave (sorry I'm mature)

I didn't do this in class, did this last night :p It's so bright looking on this monitor, god i hate my laptop -_- I'm so saving up for a mac one of these days..

Daily doodle

2010-05-04T01:21:59Z

Here I am again trying to draw something every day. A Draenei gal from World of Warcraft. Yes I know their eyes glow so you wouldn't technically be able to see them but so what. This is slightly more anime than I normally do but it's just what came out. I've been trying to color using different hues for shadow/highlight than just darker colors of the midtones. New LOST tomorrow, yayz.

Art dump

2010-05-02T08:32:35Z

I figure I should try and draw something if not once a day, at least once every couple. If I can't sit down for a long length of time to get something really nice done, then short, quick doodles are better than nothing.

Does anyone remember this show? Probably the best one Disney ever made IMHO. I was so obsessed with it when I was in middle school lol. And Demona was the shit.

My sketches are messy as hell, but it's Raziel from the Soul Reaver games. He's a non-sparkly-uh..former vampire I guess. And he eats souls. Quite charming.

I've given up trying to get a likeness of Evi lol and she's disproportionate. OH WELLZ. I miss my Jate.

Sadly I have other things to do with my time, but would rather do this instead

2010-04-28T23:47:19Z

[46] LOST Icons (cast+various seasons)

here@braindebris

Because homework is boring

2010-03-30T02:00:28Z

[48] LOST Icons (cast+various seasons)

here@braindebris

Sleeping is for losers

2010-03-15T08:50:42Z

[34] Icons (LOST, Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, Muse, Misc (True Blood, Flapjack))

Here@braindebris

I'd like to buy a witty title for 200

2010-03-03T10:06:15Z

[42] Icons (Lady Gaga, Misc. Celebs, Matthew Fox, LOST)
[01-06] Lady Gaga
[07-09] Misc. Celebs
[10-27] Matthew Fox
[28-42] LOST Season 6

The icons, they be here@braindebris

Another LOST memememememe

2010-03-01T04:05:00Z

I totally forgot I did this like ages ago. And it sucks majorly and I probably should do another one but-there you have it. I would just stick it here but it's massive so you can read my shitty handwriting, thus a link to the devart page will have to suffice. Now that I think of it, a Rockband party in the hatch really would be epic.

Da LOST Meme

Brought to you by too much Lady Gaga

2010-02-19T00:22:00Z

[27] LOST Icons
01-12 Season 6
13-27 Matthew Fox

Cherry Cherry Boom Boom@braindebris

Planet Earth Turns Slowly

2010-02-18T22:22:46Z

This looked better in my head..oh well :(

DIS IS BLOWIN UP MY FLIST W/ THE HOTNESS

2010-02-18T03:08:29Z

I have nothing to add that I haven't spewed out in my joyous glee over everyone's journals but this makes me

That is all

Break me off a piece of that..

2010-02-13T22:38:29Z

[30] LOST Icons (Season 6)

Chrysler car? Football cream?@braindebris

I got around to making..

2010-02-09T01:38:05Z

..a graphic journal. Yea. Art/picspam/old icon posts will stay public in this journal, other stupid ramblings will be f-locked and new icons shall hereby be found in braindebris. Watch the comm for updates, feel free to friend my personal journal if you aren't disgusted by jack/jate fangirlishness.

Nothing's Irreversible

2010-02-08T00:45:18Z

[83] LOST Icons (lost20in20, LAX 1+2)

+Preview+

+Not apologizing for my Jack fetish
+Take, credit
+Don't hotlink
+Comments=me love you long time
#60 thanks to my sister's stupid joke

20 LOST icons for lost20in20 (claim:316)

THEMES
Every man for himself // moment // eye of the island // centric // lips

Upside Down // Jears // Multiple // Death // Mystery

DRAMATIC STRUCTURE
Exposition // Rising Action // Climax // Falling Action // Denouement

ARTIST'S CHOICE

Extras/Rejects (because I'm indecisive)
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LAX+moar bad artz

2010-02-05T22:45:56Z

I'm kind of reminded why I slack on my art. 'Cus I can never finish anything, I swear. I think I started this like uh..a month ago?

This is only half of the image reduced to 50%. Fucker is big. Nowhere even CLOSE to being done. Not even halfway, lol. But I'm out of practice, so Jack is my muse. I will finish it..someday. I've got another different piece I started in Painter, that's only sitting at an outline I haven't even touched yet. One day I just need to sit on my ass and go through all my files and just finish shit. I still have stuff that's like..two years+ old. I fail :(

Everyone and their mom already has their thoughts on the first ep. I'm still processing, but I totally dig the AU which apparently makes everyone's hair different! No really, Locke+Jack scene=best evah. I can't wait to see more AU Jack and the crazy bitch outlaw badass Kate.

Just no more triangle, please. I can't take it. I get Kate is trying to comfort Sawyer but sometimes you never know with this show and next thing they'll be having pity sex. And the Jack hate I'll never get. Yea it was his fault, yea I think he kinda knows that so yea he's gotta deal with both Juliet's death (omg kill her once, bring her back, kill her again, I fucking hate you writers) and Sayid's (or not because he's probably Jacob now or something crazy, idk) so give him a damn break. I'm not gonna say Jack's motives were always selfless (they weren't, but let's be honest, who on this show is 100% selfless?) but overall he was always trying to save everyone in the end. Can't blame him for that.

But Jack, don't mess with the Asian dude, he knows kung-fu. Isn't this common knowledge?

IS IT TUESDAY YET?!!!

Look ma, a tutorial

2010-02-05T08:03:30Z

Requested by weatheredlaw

Disclaimer: There's like a million and one ways to make icons. I think I suck at explaining and there's really better tutorials at icon_tutorial but this is my process. And by process I mean screwing around with fills, adjustment layers and textures. 90% of my icons are accidents, trufax. Anyhoot, on we go. I use Photoshop CS3, so things should be relatively the same in earlier versions.

We'll be going to this

from
bad wig
and
bad beard (of awesome)♥

I hardly ever have a solid idea on what I want to do with an icon. I normally just scour my caps folder (these two are from lost-media)for something that jumps out at me, or I'll browse through my saved icons folder for inspiration.
So grab your cap. Start out with a 100x100 pixel document. Copy the first cap, past it into your created document. Resize. Some people like to do all their coloring on the cap before hand, sharpen and all that jazz before pasting/resizing. Again, there's a billion and one ways to do one thing, use whatever method works best for you.

I forgot to sharpen in this icon (bad me) but normally I use the high pass filter instead of the sharpen filter just because it's more subtle and less likely to make shit all pixely and gross. How do you use high pass you ask? Simple. Just duplicate your image, go to your filter menu, hit high pass, mess around until you get something nice then set your image to either overlay or soft light and adjust opacity as needed.

Okay, so we've got our cap resized. Position it someplace nice.

Now we could just convert this to B&W from here, but adding some color adjustments beforehand makes it a tad nicer looking, so we're going to do that first.

Coloring
I'm not going in to detail on how I color because I don't know what the hell I'm doing well enough to tell anyone. I screw with sliders and adjustment layers. Really, that's it. Coloring is something I continuously struggle with.

Instead I'm going to offer up some examples and link to tutorials because I'm lazy.

=Great tutorials=
Tutorial 1-x_insurrextion
Tutorial 2-prettybutt
Tutorial 3- intodelirium

sadie_carter two_five lulinha_k
prettybutt aliasledger losty_ville

Not only do a lot of these icons have amazing, crops that grab your attention or are interesting (look at the emotion the middle icon in the last row conveys) but they all have bright, vibrant colors. I love, love, love bright coloring. Neither of these is particularly strong in one hue (like an orange or blue) but the colors still pop while not being overly distracting.

Look at this. Ew. The pink is overpowering and kind of nasty. It's bright, but not in a good way.

Now back to our icon. Before I slap in any adjustment layers I like to brighten the image by duplicating it and setting the layer to screen. Depending on how dark your cap is, you can do this several times, adjusting the opacity. As a finishing touch I like to duplicate one last time and set the last one on soft light, adjusting opacity as needed. Usually after this step is when I add in the high pass filter.

In this case I duplicated the layer once, screen at 64%

We're adding a curves level first. I'm not giving out numbers here, just showing what the image looks like along this process.

OVERLAY around 73%

BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST normal 100%

SELECTIVE COLORING color 100%

Now to get the B&W affect, we'll add a threshold adjustment layer. Now make sure this layer sits above your image layers and comes before your color adjustment layers. Move the slider so there's a fair amount of contrast and set your adjustment layer to color.

Now we have this

If we had gone strictly to the B&W without the color adjustment, the result would have been this:

See, we got a bit of contrast with the color adjustments as opposed to leaving them out.

Now the first part is finished. On to Dr. Beardface

Copy your cap, slap it into your open document, resize and place. In this instance I rotated the image.

Now how do you get rid of the rest of the cap around Jack to get Kate to show? You could erase. But that's bad. Never erase when you can use layer masks. Just don't. Iz bad.

Click on the icon to the left of your adjustment layers one that says 'add vector mask'. A white box should pop up right beside the thumbnail of your current layer. Black will erase parts of your image, white does the opposite. This is the meat and potatoes of how I add textures as well.

Now go to your paintbrush tool, pick something nice. I use one of my illustration brushes downloaded from Deviantart.

I have the opacity and flow down pretty low, usually around 20-40% depending so it's easier to blend. I also use a graphics tablet which helps a lot in controlling the pressure of the brush. Now paint as needed and voila.

Screen it once to get

TEXTURE

Now we add the texture. It's at this point I pretty much rummage through my sea of (very unorganized) textures folder until I find something that slaps me in the face. In this case, I came across this nice blue one from dabbischdes

Copy, pasta. Make sure this layer sits at the top of your layers pallet above the color corrections, set it to multiply. Although you could drag it around to see how they change the colors of the texture, I've done this sometimes too. Don't be afraid to play with the color of your texture or even rotate it/crop it. Experiment!

Here are some examples of past icons and the various textures I've used on them. A lot of these textures are also set to different blend modes, so again, experiment.

=More Great Tutorials=
Tutorial 1-iconseeyou
Tutorial 2-xeyra
Tutorial 3-shoqolad

I hope this was at least somewhat helpful. I'll be updating this post as time rolls on, possibly with more in depth explanation as soon as I get decent at this shit.

Picspams, oh my!

2010-01-24T03:43:34Z

More Jate picspams+some RL shtuff

Running around like a chicken with my head cut off getting ready for this trip. We'll have a laptop+internet access and our hotel is a short jaunt down the road right to where the premier will be showing. I will be posting images/brief synopsis if I'm not passed out from over-excitement. That is if I survive the trip down and my BFF doesn't murder me from all my Jack/Jate fangirl squealing she'll be hearing from me. On to the spammage!

Too tired for a witty title

2010-01-19T11:44:19Z

77 various fandom icons (LOST, Glee, True Blood and more)

+Preview+

+Take them, Credit Me+
+Comments are wanted and appreciated+
+NO Hotlinking+
+Do not alter+
+Friend for updates, I friend back+

True Blood, Avatar, Supernatural, Glee, South Park
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Subjecting you to bad art because I can

2010-01-13T06:59:47Z

I seriously haven't drawn ANYTHING in a LONG WHILE. CAPS.

So, resolution, here we go.

What better way to practice facial expressions? Thank you Mr.Fox, but I both love and hate your gorgeous nose. Damn you.

You know I kinda had a date last night..

2010-01-12T08:41:25Z

66 LOST Icons

+Preview+

+No Hotlinking+
+Take, credit+
+Comments are yummy and very much appreciated+
+I have a Jack obsession, I do however, take other character requests+
+Friend for updates, I friend back+

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Dun dun dun shiney scalpel

2010-01-05T19:04:06Z

48 LOST Icons

+Preview+

+Hotlinking=no+
+Take, give credit+
+Comments are much appreciated+
+No modifying, please+

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I am drunk, or else I wouldn't be talking to you

2009-12-30T07:12:31Z

Quick, someone come with me to Hawaii so I can watch the season 6 premiere on the beach in a hopeless attempt to see the cast members! *coughmattycough* I have teh money but no one to go with me *sadface*

Oh well I made some icons in my depression.

+Previewz+

+NO HOTLINKING+
+No editing+
+Credit if using+
+Comments make the world go round+
+Friend for updates (I friend back!)+

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